Microsoft is killing its game-streaming service, folding it into Facebook’s

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Mixer, the game-streaming platform acquired by Microsoft in 2016, is done. Xbox team lead Phil Spencer confirmed the news on Monday, announcing a 30-day end-of-life period before Microsoft formally pulls the plug on July 22.

What's more, Microsoft used the opportunity to offer all of its users, particularly its moneymaking "partner" members, a transition path to another streaming service: Facebook Gaming.

"Beginning today, Facebook Gaming will make it easy for anyone in the Mixer community to join, if they choose to do so," Spencer writes at Xbox Wire. He guides affected users to check out a Mixer FAQ on the transition, but unsurprisingly, the guidance about jumping from Mixer to Facebook Gaming is full of caveats about "eligibility" and having financial agreements matched by Facebook "as closely as possible."

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